Resources for Teaching Controversial Issues

 

Newspaper Archives

ProQuest: Five leading metropolitan newspaper archives back to 1985

LosAngeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Wallstreet Journal, Minneapolis Star Tribune

http://www.mpls.k12.mn.us/schools/students/highschool_help.shtml (best accessed through Netscape)

 

Periodical and Journal Archives

Infotrac: Fourteen different databases, some more appropriate for teachers.

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mnkminpub?id=123gotgg

 

Editorial Cartoons

Cagle’s Professional Cartoon Index: Comprehensive, catalogued

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/

 

Audio Reports

National Public Radio: Comprehensive, archived Morning Edition, All Things Considered, etc.

http://www.npr.org/

 

Alternative Press

Conservative Columnists: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/

Liberal Press: http://www.alternet.org/

 

Constructive Controversy in Collaborative Groups

This essay provides some of the background for this pedagogical technique.

http://www.clcrc.com/pages/academic.html